[the_individual2014]

oh no RIP Principal Clark.

[Pontiac]

"I don't just categorically extirpate young people out of school, but I am categorically emphatic that we cannot any longer condone hooliganism, aberrant behavior and deviant behavior in those schools," Clark said in a CNN interview. "I'm convinced that young people, the vast majority, deserve the right to an environment that's conducive to learning."

More than anything else I believe that this is the key to success or failure of a school. That and enforcing standards.

One of the things that I thought they got right in that film was the portrayal of the Mother of the drug dealing teenager that insisted that he had a right to be in the school regardless of his behavior.

She was a troublemaker in front of the school board and knew how to make trouble for a reforming principal.

She portrayed a Leftist very well.

Joe Clark retired in 1989. Twenty-one years of retirement. Not bad.

[PallMal]

Clark expelled 300 students for fighting, vandalism, abusing teachers and drug possession — in one day

Today, that is all overlooked if a certain percentage of those expelled are from a certain group.

It would be called "disproportionate punishment", and all 300 of those hoodlums would go right back in the classroom.

[Hot Tabasco]

Sounds like he raised great kids..........

[LRoggy]

Raised TWO Olympians??? Wow!!!

[HartleyMBaldwin]

Fare thee well, Old Joe Clark.

[fieldmarshaldj]

RIP.